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English: Left, the light sequence for a legal reaction time race. Right, a false start, often because the car is launched before the green light displays. The reaction time tests in F1 in Schools not test the speed of the "car" using people to launch the car instead of the computer. To instruct the team when to launch the car there is a series of lights, which light up in a specific order but with random time delays. There are three orange lights, and if the car is launched when any of these lights are lit up then the team is disqualified for that round (the "car" doesn't launch) and the red light lights up. Once the green lights up the team has to launch the car as quickly as possible.